For Treasure Hunters, Free Money Is Such a Tweet

But for Twitter Giver, Some Good Deeds Go Punished; Snarling Traffic

By

Sheila V Kumar

Aug. 5, 2014 10:30 p.m. ET

After making a mint in the real-estate business, Jason Buzi decided it was time to share the wealth by creating @HiddenCash, the Twitter handle that announces the cash giveaways that have recently drawn thousands of treasure hunters from California to Spain.

"It's been tremendously rewarding in a way you can't measure financially," says Mr. Buzi, who estimates he's given away roughly $60,000 so far in allotments of about...